Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. NOISE Analysis.

Strategic Planning 158

Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The tools include: SWOT analysis, Porter's 5 forces of competition, McKinsey's 7-S framework, BCG’s product portfolio matrix, Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean, Kaplan and Norton's balanced scorecard, Mintzberg’s deliberate and emergent, Prahalad's bottom of the pyramid and twenty-one more. * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal (..)

Strategy 281

Strategy Books Balanced Scorecard Mauborgne 281

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Examples of Team coaching using activities: Current Method / Better Way Matrix Team Building Activity. Build A Tower Build A Team. Corporate Team Building. MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. Strategic Planning. Distinctive:Working Well:100 Days Future Perfect.

Guidelines 139

Guidelines Team Building Team Executive Coaching 139

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. Customers don’t buy your product or service in order for you to meet your numbers. Look at the diagram and decide which one is right for you (based upon your products and services, and your culture).

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Leadership. by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. And, the SWOT analysis is not the way to do it. Leadership.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Here is the rub and the reason why adopting this principle is so critical: in our experience, the priority initiatives turn out to be on new product, service, customer, and technology initiatives accompanied by an assumption that the organization has the capabilities to execute them. That is the good news. Engineered to Win.

Process 150

Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

Failing to focus on the customer often results in companies selling a product or service that their customers don’t need. In other cases, a company might build an in-demand product or service but struggle to execute to customer expectations. Other companies turn strategy into a big annual leadership retreat. Steve Coughran.

Strategy 78

Strategy SWOT Company Customer Loyalty 78

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

That doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, for sure it will be hard to build a perfect product. But you need to define the basics right: be organized, collect the right information on time, and improve your product and services in a lean way. 1) Analyze your SWOT. SWOT analysis. Leadership. 14 Deming principles.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The purpose of a SWOT analysis in the business planning process is to make sure you’ve identified all the possible strengths , weaknesses , opportunities and threats to your business. Some aspects of the SWOT analysis are designed to act upon. Extremely savvy job seekers will do their own SWOT analysis on the company before joining.

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SWOT Analysis Succession Short-term 52

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Key activities can be categorized as: Production, Problem Solving, Platform/network) Key Partnerships – Some activities are outsourced and some resources are acquired outside the enterprise. (It His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2014

Every one of those musty shelf-dwelling ‘Strategic Plans’ cost those leaders and their organizations a great deal of human effort and lost productivity. In this step you may need to conduct a SWOT analysis and an Environmental Scan look at both the internal and external factors you should be considering. About the Author.

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Planning Strategic Planning Tactics SWOT 63

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

SWOTCreator by Model Creator – The origins of SWOT are not well known and a bit interesting. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it.

Executive Coaching 79

Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

SWOTCreator by Model Creator – The origins of SWOT are not well known and a bit interesting. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it.

Executive Coaching 68

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development. And, be sure to plan for enough time for the discussion. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

Tips 34

Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership. You might say CARVER is a SWOT analysis on steroids. That Accessibility score might mean a competitor could beat the product to market, and the Effect could be the fallout from a controversial marketing campaign.

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Long-dominant frameworks like the Five Forces or SWOT analysis have been based, accordingly, on a fundamental, often static or relatively long-duration, set of market and firm characteristics. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time.

Strategy 12

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. Leadership is changing — fast. Learn to recognize and appreciate leadership qualities in others as well as in yourself. why do customers buy your product or service?). Insight Center.

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Innovation Skills CEO Learning-by-Doing 8